New, more efficient capital project delivery methods are driving major, industry-wide changes for delivering projects with higher quality in less time and for less money. In this webcast Gavin Keith and Marianne O'Brien detail the principles of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), the advantages of implementing a Lean delivery approach, and the benefits of IPD compared to traditional delivery approaches. They detail lessons learned and results achieved from implementing IPD and the Last Planner System for the University of California, San Francisco's Institute for Regeneration Medicine project. Webcast leaders also examine different models for developing integrated and aligned project delivery teams, benchmark criteria for assessing IPD, and methods for determining potential savings opportunities.

AMC leaders must find new ways to secure their organization's role in tomorrow's solutions for care delivery, education and research. Here Todd Fitz explores two significant areas of opportunity for academic medical centers: redefining the hospital of the future, and master planning without boundaries -- the expansion of training and research from the traditional campus into the community. These opportunities also embrace the need to expand healthcare to all children, an aging population, and new populations while at the same time responding to cost pressures and staffing shortages. View this webcast with your team and consider how your organization could benefit from similar moves.

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Attract, recruit, and retain top researchers by planning integrated, efficient, and adaptable facilities that meet the changing needs of research. In this webcast, Evan Weremeychik details key features for planning attractive, functional laboratories capable of adapting to persistent change and strategies for minimizing the impact associated with changing research programs. He uses current case studies to illustrate optimal lab planning modules including appropriate ratios of labs to support, storage, and office spaces, flexibility options using vertical and horizontal distribution for mechanical systems, and spaces that encourage collaboration and interaction between research groups. He also benchmarks costs for these features and compares up-front and future costs for implementing flexibility strategies.

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Reduce the carbon footprint of research facilities by incorporating natural ventilation. View this webcast to discover the challenges, strategies, and solutions implemented in the University of Washington's new 160,000 square foot Molecular Engineering Building to safely and effectively incorporate natural ventilation within the laboratory building. Webcast leaders discuss the ventilation strategies (bulk air flow models, wind tunnel analysis) and tools (Ecotect and eQuest) that were used to determine if natural ventilation meets the safety standards and program needs of building occupants. They detail the solutions implemented that yielded precise ventilation stack placement, aggressive heat gain reductions, and carefully considered window openings and connections between laboratory and office spaces.

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This session details a best practice of combining the activities of commissioning (and re-commissioning) and accreditation to save significant time and money and assure on-time, successful AAALAC and/or USDA inspection outcomes. Michael Weiss and Jonathan Schantz set out tools and formats for using commissioning cycle-times and on-site commissioning personnel to prepare for accreditation inspections. They detail commissioning and accreditation processes and set out commissioning task specifications for addressing such accreditation issues as data collection, SOPs, protocols, sterilization, caging systems, sterilization, housekeeping, maintenance, and program components including veterinary care, business contingency plan, and training.

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In this webcast Allen Archer and Keith O'Leary detail Wellmont Health System's initiative to better manage its capital spend targets. A health system encompassing 13 acute care facilities across three states, and $350 million in capital spend, Wellmont is implementing a software solution to 1.) automate the capital budget process, 2.) track requisition and expenditure status for capital needs, and 3.) improve controls and provide real-time visibility to key financial data. You get details on the VFA.spendManager(R) solution and the specifics on how it is delivering enterprise-wide visibility, an accurate picture of cash flow based on real-time spending, more precise forecasts of costs, and dramatic cost savings.

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View this recorded webcast to learn design strategies that deliver more program space for less capital dollars. Here, Tom Nelson details solutions that maximize efficiencies, create flexible spaces, and incorporate sustainable planning principles without jeopardizing project budgets. He examines the new, highly-efficient Medical Education Facility at the University of California, Irvine that is pursing LEED Gold certification. The project team utilized BIM (Building Information Modeling) to capitalize on its ability to facilitate early energy modeling, leverage embedded information, and streamline workflow. Significant benefits are realized using a design process that incorporates early analysis and integrated sustainable design strategies resulting in space and energy efficiencies that save dollars over the life of the facility.

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The success of high-rise research facilities lies in the details behind solutions to five big issues: 1) code regulations, 2) constructability, 3) maximizing efficiency, 4) operations, and 5) collaborative linkages between floors. In this webcast, presenters examine the details and lessons learned from raising the roof from a 12-floor clinical care center to a 20-floor research tower at Texas Children's Hospital. They also compare construction details of four additional medical research tower case studies across the United States to illustrate resolutions to code and constructability issues that have made vertical expansion possible and creative design solutions that optimize efficiency and collaboration.

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John Nelson illustrates why much of the current thinking about sustainability amounts to symbolic "window dressing" and charts where a realistic and effective course correction must begin. He provides tools--the triple bottom line, carbon accounting, and life-cycle analysis--and profiles project examples to equip planners to make changes today that provide short-term impacts while transitioning their organizations toward real-world, long-term sustainability. He also sets out an infrastructure and operations sustainability strategy that provides real immediate, intermediate, and long-term results. Duration: 50 minutes

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In this Webcast, Chris Hood and Robin Ellerthorpe present an HP case study using Herman Miller's patent pending Space Utilization Service technology that revealed a significant opportunity to pinpoint precise future space needs through improved accuracy, greater detail, and more effective presentation of data relating to current utilization. Here you'll gain an understanding of the importance of accurately measuring space occupancy, technologies that work, and pitfalls to avoid.

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View this Webcast to learn efficient, cost-effective strategies for enhancing flexibility and collaboration within scientific research and teaching facilities. Here Carrie Byles and Nazneen Cooper use Harvard University's new 500,000 gsf Northwest Science Building as a case study to demonstrate how avoiding "hard-wiring" labs leads to research spaces that work for multiple users and can accommodate new scientists over time. They detail the designs of a facility flexible enough to support innovative cross-disciplinary research collaboration without its first occupants even being identified, and reveal how a "lab loft" design concept allows scientists to easily reassign and reconfigure space thru the use of a flexible "central nervous system" armature that leaves the bench area free of columns and vertical penetrations.

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View this Webcast to learn ways to build consensus among stakeholders and quickly identify project priorities through new tools such as "rapid prototyping". Here, Jeff Murray and Nathan Corser illustrate the effectiveness of front end design processes and how these techniques can be critical to meeting aggressive fast-track schedules. They use the Nebraska Center for Virology as a case study to demonstrate how "rapid prototyping" was used to prepare a NIH grant proposal including building siting, concept, project performance definition, cost estimates, and schematic level design in just four weeks. They compare the cost and liability benefits of up-front intensive planning with methods that do not include these procedures. DURATION: 30 mins.

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The replacement of buildings is a big component of academic medical center planning. If not done from an integrated, on-going operations point of view, long-term institutional objectives of building stronger linkages between research, clinical, and teaching activities will be severely compromised. Here, session leaders demonstrate planning methods, outcomes, and lessons learned in master planning for the long-range vision in the context of on-going operational requirements during what can be decades of building-by-building replacement activities. In particular, they examine actionable master plans involving building replacement programs at Ohio State, UNC, and the Cleveland Clinic.